Another possiblity, I forgot to
mention:
XMLSocket in Macromedia Flash Player 7, if you are making
Flex 1.5 application.
Flex App (in browser) <-------- XMLSocket-------->
Socket Server (in OS App) <-------------> Other apps
-abdul
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Abdul Qabiz
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:58 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Control devices from Flex
Hi,
I am not sure about licensing in Flex 1.5, where you can
not embed Flex apps in windows-application. However, I tell how I have done
something in past in my previous company in some similar projects using
Flash:
* Embed Flash application in windows-application
(VB/C++/C#) and do things with FSCommand and activeX's SetVariable/GetVariable()
methods. Now with Flash Player 8, you can use ExternalInterface, which is
very clean way of doing things. Windows Application can have methods that
control different things, and you execute those methods from Flash
app...
* Embed Flash App in a .HTA (windows only) file, in HTA you
can do more things and I guess invoke some OS level things using WSC/WSH
(Windows Scripting Host)...
Other solution, I can think of:
Embed a small Flash application in a windows-application.
Your Flex app is hosted in HTML page and shown to user in kiosk mode...Flex
communicates with flash application using LocalConnection, in turn Flash app
executes different methods in windows-application....
Flex App (in HTML) <----LocalConnection---> Flash
App(embedded in Windows-App)<---------ExternalInterface or FSCommand-->
Windows-App <-----------> OS
I think, you won't be required to have HTTP server in
this case. I am wondering, if Robert Hall is on this list, he can surely suggest
better ways...
Search Google/any-other-search-engine to know more about
HTA or WSH...
-abdul
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Paoletta
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 8:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Control devices from Flex
We're currently evaluating Flex for an ATM software platform. One of our requirements is that we need to control some of the devices of the machine (the machine mailbox, printer, etc). One possibility we've been investigating is to host an HTTP server that would control all the devices. The thing is, how can I call it from a Flex application? The application would be deployed on a central server. Most of the interactions would be with services on the central server, but we need to make calls to the local server to control the devices (print reports, open and close the mailbox, etc).
The other option is to embed the application in an html page with a java applet that would be responsible of interacting with the server or the devices.
Do you know how can we accomplish this?
TIA,
Martin Paoletta
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